[MEncoder-users] Finding out file duration

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/31/05, Jean Hoderd <jhoderd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an option in mplayer/mencoder to return
> the duration of a movie file?  Sorry if the solution
> is obvious, but I could not find any other way
> other than to use -benchmark, which is of course
> very slow.

That's probabaly the best solution as some containers such as MPEG
can't be safely trusted to report the correct duration.
What you may do though is speed-up the decoding process using the
lavdopts decoding options, and/or use "-nosound"

Cheers,
Guillaume
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